L/V 10+ Tip of the Day #283 Reading status of Logos/Verbum books

MJ. Smith

Another tip of the day (TOTD) series for Logos/Verbum 10. They will be short and often drawn from forum posts. Feel free to ask questions and/or suggest forum posts you'd like to see included. Adding comments about the behavior on mobile and web apps would be appreciated by your fellow forumites. A search for "L/V 10+ Tip of the Day site:community.logos.com" on Google should bring the tips up as should this Reading List within the application.

This tip is inspired by the forum post: Keeping Track of My Reading - Logos Forums

There are many methods Logos/Verbum use to track reading status

For books in Logos, try the Bibliography tool. It has Notes and it can record your read status. It can use Docs Search.

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I also have used tags to keep track of my reading progress within Logos. Of course these do not list the books I've read outside of Logos and must be done some other way.

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Another trick:

• In the library window, click on the top of the first column, where the "Reading Status" green/grey circles are shown.
• It will sort your books into the same 3 buckets: Reading, Unread, Finished.
• When you expand the "Reading" bucket, your books are sorted by the % read, according to Logos.
• You can sort that column in ascending or descending order. So within "Reading," you can choose to see the "most read" books first, or the "least read" books first.

Would also be nice if Logos allows us to manually override the reading status (e.g. on the book's Info page)

I assume you know you can reset it to unread or set it to read.

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I use GoodReads, which is owned by Amazon. It has social media features, but I do not use those. It has both a website and Apps for smartphones (iPhone, Android). It is great to have a list of "currently reading," "want to read," "read," and "read in 2023" (etc.). 

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I know this is probably sacrilege for Logos users, but I use Excel to keep track of what books I've read, whether print or Logos or Kindle books.

Keeping track of what I own involves a combination of methods. Logos books are all kept track of in my Logos library. Kindle books in my Kindle library. And for my print books, I've kept an Excel spreadsheet for years which lists all my dead tree books. I have not sought a way to merge these all into one database. Logos does have the capability of keeping track of a "Print Library" but it seems like too much redundant work to re-enter all my print books into Logos when I already have them listed in Excel.

I also keep track of which Logos books I've read using a system of tags: TOREAD = I want to read this; READING = I'm in the middle of it; FINISHED = I've read it. (I use FINISHED instead of READ, since searching for the tag READ would find TOREAD and READING too, which I wouldn't want).

I also keep track of which Kindle books I've read using Kindle collections, using the same naming scheme.

Daniel Wurzberg

tnx for sharing these tips.

Do you know if there's a way to reset reading progress for multiple titles?

So far the only way is to click each book reading progress and reset it. Unless I'm missing something.

Also some books are tagged as reading while progress is not showing as it's under 1%, and hence, you can't reset reading progress there.